featherboa wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:23 am
hey cw, check out A Little Life
God damn you Travis.
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:04 pm
by featherboa
haha i was wondering if you'd get to it
did you ever throw it across the room?
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:35 pm
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:04 pm
haha i was wondering if you'd get to it
did you ever throw it across the room?
No. I wouldn’t say it was completely hopeless. Even though things ultimately didn’t work out it still felt oddly hopefully at the end of “Dear Comrads”
Alright solidaritywithfruit, this is your reading assignment.
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:34 pm
by featherboa
man i don't have the stomach
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:53 pm
by Jimm O' Lation
you'd be upset by an archie comic for fucks sake
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:29 pm
by cxwx
I loved Cows so fucking much. This was like American Psycho meats Story Of The Eye with Joseph Kallinger becoming the god of lower ( higher?) organisms. Maybe if Marques De Sade wrote Watership Down.
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:47 pm
by NIGEL GARAGE
THERES ONLY ONE ANSWER ANS ITS THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM!!!!!!!!!!!
HERBIE GOES BANANAS!!!!!!!!!
HEIDI!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:40 pm
by cxwx
“The Girl Next Door” - Jack Ketchum
Fuck. I know it’s based on true events. For a mass market novel this is pretty strong meat.
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:41 pm
by cxwx
Gabrielle Wittkop’s “The Necrophilic” should be approached with caution.
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:08 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
Tricknollegy trivcks
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:17 pm
by cxwx
Far more lurid than expected. Some of this stuff would make Chris Barnes puke. A bit like Bukowski writing splatter punk.
Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:42 pm
by cxwx
Most depressing:
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Leaving Las Vegas - John OBrien
The Neon Bible - John Kennedy Toole
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
Notice - Heather Lewis
Infinite Jest - DFW
Filth - Irvine Welsh
Cujo/ Pet Semetary/ The Tommy Knockers/ Herman Wouk Is Still Alive - Stephen King
The Road/The Passenger/Stella Maris - McCarthy
Kafkas’ Letter To His Father
The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
Dark Spring - Zurn Unica
The Royal Family - Vollmann
The River - Flannery OConnor
Lord Of Dark Places - Hal Bennett
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
The Tunnel - William H Gass
Less Than Zero/Lunar Park - Ellis
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Breakfast of Champions / the Dresden clean up section of Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
Ask The Dust - Fante
VALIS - Phillip K Dick
The End Of Alice - AM Homes
Dog Fight - William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
House Of Leaves - Danielewski
The Arms And Legs Of The Lake - Mary Gaitskill
The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Empty Mile - Matthew Stokoe
Runner ups:
The Earlie King And The Kid In Yellow - Danny Denton
Kafka On The Shore - Murakami
His Name Was Death - Rafael Burnal
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
End Of Watch/Cell - Stephen King
Some George Saunders stuff
Dhalgren - SR Delany
2666 - Bolano
Cather In The Rye - Salinger
Magnetic Fields - Ron Loewinsohn